Showing papers in "Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1972"

TL;DR: The body mass index seems preferable over other indices of relative weight on these grounds as well as on the simplicity of the calculation and, in contrast to percentage of average weight, the applicability to all populations at all times.

TL;DR: If smoking and drinking both are causes of oral cancer—as the data suggest—then the removal of both will be necessary to prevent a large proportion of the disease in males.

TL;DR: Although the actual amounts of exposures of the population were small, the greatest health hazard to the population at large came from atmospheric testing of atomic bombs, O”Sr being a fission product.

TL;DR: This clinical syndrome is often familial, and ultimately resembles the benign variety of Heberden's and Bouchard's nodes; the acute onset and the involvement of more proximal joints of the hands and of a pattern of peripheral and spinal joints permit its differentiation.

TL;DR: A multiple regression analysis of composite values gives strong support to the hypothesis that cigarettes are a major source of cadmium to man and, in addition, can contribute more to the total body burden than the amount derived from other sources.

TL;DR: Sixty-two middle-aged Swedish male survivors of their initial myocardial infarctic (MI) were compared with 109 Swedish male subjects recently examined and detemined to be free from coronary heart disease (CHD).

TL;DR: Lance et al, however, in one of the largest recent series, uses as criteria for migraine ‘recurrent severe headache with’ the help of a single defining criterion.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that causative factors may still be operative in the third and fourth decades of life in high-risk areas and that a protective factor may also be involved in the etiology of MS.

TL;DR: The presence of alcohol, alcoholism, drugs other than alcohol and medical impairment was studied among persons age 15 or older who died of nonhighway injury and where relevant they were compared with persons who died after acute episodes of illness.

TL;DR: Rheumatoid arthritis was diagnosed on the basis of combinations of symptoms and signs, laboratory features, roentgenographic changes, and histologic abnormalities in 26 patients, with the most striking features of the superimposed involvement included the universal involvement in these patients of tendon sheaths at the wrists.

TL;DR: A population dose- response curve between cigarette consumption and lung cancer is constructed from past smoking patterns and current lung cancer death rates and suggests that the difference between male and female rates is a simple function of the difference in their past cigarette tobacco use, a dose-response effect.

TL;DR: In order to treat effectively these patients the medical personnel must relate to them in a manner which does not aggravate the patient's dependency needs, the secondary gain, and preoccupation sometimes associated with the illness.

TL;DR: Results suggest that patients with higher intelligence scores more often maintain functional performance and improve in social adjustment than do patients with low intelligence scores, and psycho-social factors, although they do not alter rheumatoid disease activity, can affect functional results of rehabilitation measures.

TL;DR: This is the first report which describes a battery of quantitative tests designed to measure in part the effect of a drug on activities of daily living, by which a patient with Parkinsonism bases his judgement of the effectiveness of a non-toxic treatment.

TL;DR: It is found that the discussion of symptoms, usually with a relative, was a prelude to seeking medical care for three-quarters of his respondents, thus implying that those who are socially isolated are less likely to be propelled toward medical treatment for their symptoms.

TL;DR: It is suggested that in selecting patients for inclusion in a home dialysis training program, in many cases the program will have to make a decision about which is more valued; ‘quantity’ of life (sheer length of physical survival), or ‘quality of life’ (emotional adjustment while alive).

TL;DR: Wright et al, report similar MMPl findings as well as self-ratings of happiness, which suggest a significant degree of denial and absence of depression in patients retested after a lengthy period of dialysis, which make it difficult to accept unequivocally the generalization concerning defensiveness and affective experience throughout the course of Dialysis.

TL;DR: The Semantic Differential for Health technique is applied in a study of the images of cancer, heart disease, mental illness and cholera held by a random sample of the Israeli Jewish adult urban population in 1971, finding that in overall terms the disease images are not distributed differentially along demographic lines.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that arteriosclerosis obliterans comprises more than one etiologic entity and that patients with aortoiliac occlusion differ in age distribution and smoking habits from patients with occlusions of other sites.

TL;DR: The combination of several drugs in a fixed proportion in one tablet or capsule deprives the physician of the opportunity of determining for himself the most desirable ratio of agents for each patient.

TL;DR: In all three teams high discrepancies were found in the members' actual expectations from their patients, suggesting that intra-team discrepancies in expectations might be one of the major reasons for patients' poor compliance with the medical regimen.

TL;DR: Analysis of data for 370 patients presenting with Hodgkin's disease in the Manchester Regional Hospital area from 1962–1965 showed a bimodal age distribution and variation in the preponderance of males at different ages, which suggested heterogeneity within Hodgkin’s disease.

TL;DR: In the Kaiser-Permanente Drug Reaction Monitoring System, outpatient drug and event data collected during the first 6 months have been analyzed and provides a framework for considering how criteria for selecting those associations of greatest importance may work in practice.

TL;DR: A procedure has been developed, and tables presented, for estimating sample size requirements in the planning stage of a clinical trial where patients are to enter the study in cohorts rather than simultaneously, and can be of value in terms of providing guidelines for assessing the adequacy of sample accrual.

TL;DR: A questionnaire has been devised based on another study by the authors and on the publications of other workers to estimate physical and mental illness in older people and its performance was found to be satisfactory in respect of accuracy and reproducibility.